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Central Asia
Ingenious Chinese Mobsters employ perfect camoflage for PRC setting
2004-01-27
EFL
China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported that the factory had been unearthed in the southern province of Sichuan, with a sign on the gate reading: "Number 1 Block of the Xinkang Prison of Sichuan Province". Officials from Xinkang Prison denied any part in the deception, according to Xinhua. Xinhua said over 500 cartons of cigarettes and 117 tons of cut tobacco were found at the premises. Four suspects and two lorries were captured during the police raid. In keeping with the sign on the gate, workers had been treated like prisoners and had not been not allowed to leave the premises, Xinhua said. Police said the underground factory manufactured about $30,000 worth of cigarettes in over 20 fake brands. A police investigation has been launched.
Totally ubiquitous in the Chinese setting. Brilliant move; no wonder Asian SAT scores or so high.
Posted by:Super Hose

#4  No, it was US tobacco sold to the UK tobacco cabol, seconded to the FSU chechen mobocracy. Financed by a constoritum of our German scientists using their German banks in an effort to ensure that the Raleigh Coupon treasure trove is never found. The mere existence of the RCTT is egg in the face of the Federal Reserve Board.

I can say no more.
Posted by: Tarryeton   2004-1-27 3:59:02 PM  

#3  Okay, let me get this straight... it was a real prison run by the PLA posing as a fake prison run by the PLA but really run by the Chineee mob, using US tobacco brands to elude Chineese taxes on interior goods to subtervine the US brands because Winston Tastes Good Like A Cigarette Should.

Am I close?
Posted by: Shipman   2004-1-27 3:51:28 PM  

#2  Wait until the Chinese trial lawyers get wind. I smell a hefty tobacco settlement on the way.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-1-27 12:43:39 PM  

#1  Officials from Xinkang Prison denied any part in the deception, according to Xinhua.

Yeahhhh, It was a FAKE gulag slave-labor prison! That's the ticket. It was all fake, those guards and soldiers are in costume. Nothing at all to do with the REAL Xinkang Prison. Yeah. Mobsters running a fake 'prison camp'. That's it.
Posted by: 4thInfVet   2004-1-27 11:25:47 AM  

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